Hear God’s Voice

By Pastor ChyChy Ayodele

Fellowship with The Holy Spirit and you will hear God’s special voice.

You will hear His unique and specific teaching for your life from His Word as you sit before Him, giving Him lots and lots as well as more of your time daily. Spend night and day, set aside quality time to worship Him and pray in the spirit.

Set your mind on encountering God daily. Assimilate volumes of the word at these times. This is full time work. You are simply emptying yourself of trashy, earthly distractions to allow Him fill you with His Word and Himself.

Emptying yourself of vain, frivolous and pointless desires and pursuits to allow Him fill you with His Word and His presence and His Power. Get rid of parasites in your life. They must fall off your life because they are obviously going no where in the spirit. Keep yourself from pointless company, these are time wasters. Join yourself with people of same mind, same spirit and same drive to fulfill your purpose.

Rise up now by the power of the Spirit and of the word to fulfill your purpose in Jesus name. Get rid of hobbies, leisure activities, soul entertainment, inaccurate interactions and socialising, etc, that take up lumps of your time without control. Make communication with God the first thing in your life.

You may only have time for other such things after you've given full time for what God wants. And if you've given full time to what God wants, there will be no time for wasting. Your life will be trimmed down of all this wasteful, subtle demonic devices. Loads of flesh will be circumcised from you, leaving you free to serve the living God.

Sins, impurities, wrong attitudes, selfishness, desire for worldly things must drop off of you. You must find the love of God. These other worldly things and more which The Holy Spirit will reveal to you will keep you out of the presence of God and out of fellowship and communion with the Spirit.

Communion with the Spirit means, "partnership, moving and doing together" with Him and the Holy Spirit cannot and will not partner in you in such other trashy things. Thus, He simply withdraws, leaving you without a sense of His presence. He cannot be in communion with you in such vanities, frivolities and time wasting, pointless engagements.

Everything you do must be accurate and fruitful, increasing Christ knowledge in you, highlighting the sense of His presence. So be careful how you live, not as fools but as those who are wise. Make the most of every opportunity for doing good in this evil days. Don't act thoughtlessly, but try to understand what the Lord wants you to do.

Try to find out what is pleasing to the Lord. Don't participate in the things many other people do."(Ephesians 5).

As you fellowship with God with a goal to encounter Him, He begins to reveal His will as He speaks to you. You may have dreams, see visions, hear voices as you wait. The spirit will speak by inner witness, His voice will be a deep knowing that will penetrate your conscience and make you know that this is the requirement for your life.

It will so affect your conscience that you'll feel guilty when you fall short of it. There will be a deep calling unto your inner being, in the depths of your soul, your consciousness. You will discover His voice.

So, access the divine presence by worshipping in the Spirit through yielding. God will come flooding your life. You will not be distracted, heavily burdened ever again. You will focus, fix your eyes on the Lord. You will maintain focus and enter into divine silence of the Spirit, that holy place where He speaks, reveals, shows, flows and imparts.

You will be established in your communion with the spirit; it becomes habitual. You will be steadfast and continuous, overcoming every resistance, setback, obstacles to continuous communion with the Spirit.

Enter into an unfailing, and unending daily flow with God. I will discuss other factors like 'How to maintain the Oil... How to maintain The Flow' in my next post...

Pastor Chychy Ayodele - The Preacher, Lawyer; Writer; Inspirational and Transformational Minister...

Be Filled With The Holy Spirit

By Pastor M. Isi Eromosele

In Ephesians 5:18, Apostle Paul wrote, “And do not get drunk with wine, for that is debauchery, but be filled with the Spirit.”  What does it mean to be filled with the Spirit? And, how can we be filled with the Spirit?

Being filled with the Spirit means, basically, having great joy in God. And since the Bible teaches that "the joy of the Lord is our strength" (Nehemiah 8:10), it also means there will be power in this joy for overcoming besetting sins and for boldness in witness.

Basically, it means radiant joy, because the Spirit who fills us is the Spirit of joy that flows between God the Father and God the Son because of the delight they have in each other. Therefore, to be filled with the Spirit means to be caught into the joy that flows among the Holy Trinity and to love God the Father and God the Son with the very love with which they love each other. 

And then, in answer to the second question, the way to be filled with the Spirit is by trusting that the God of hope really reigns; that not a sparrow falls to the ground apart from his will (Matthew 10:29) - and that he runs the world for you and for all who trust His Word. In believing that, you will be filled with the Holy Spirit and with joy.

What Does "Baptize in the Holy Spirit" Mean?

The phrase "baptize in (or with) the Holy Spirit" was apparently coined by John the Baptist. All four of our gospels record that he said, "I have baptized you with water, but He (Jesus) will baptize you with the Holy Spirit" (Matthew 3:11; Mark 1:8; Luke 3:16; John 1:33).

Paul says in 1 Corinthians 12:12, 13:

Just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body - Jews or Greeks, slaves or free - and all were made to drink of one Spirit.

According to this one reference, Paul conceived of Spirit-baptism as the act by which the Spirit made us members of Christ's body. Once we were alienated from God, cut off from Christ (Ephesians 2:12), but then the Holy Spirit swept over us and brought us to life by uniting us to the living Christ and thus to His people in one body. This is a once-for-all event. It is never repeated, and nowhere does Paul ever admonish a Christian to be baptized by the Spirit.

Baptism with the Holy Spirit is an experience you have with God after conversion in which the Holy Spirit falls upon you in such a way that your heart bursts forth in the utterance of tongues (some ecstatic speech or unknown language).

We are sometimes urged to seek a "second blessing" or second experience of the Spirit after our initial conversion experience. Two things need to be said.

First: the blessing of the fullness (or baptism) of the Holy Spirit may occur at the moment of conversion and leave nothing to be sought but its preservation and growth or repetition. Second: even if one does not experience the fullness of the Spirit at conversion, the thing to be sought is not "the second blessing," as if that experience would be the end of our spiritual quest.

What we should seek (and this applies to all Christians) is that God pour his Spirit out upon us so completely that we are filled with joy, victorious over sin and bold to witness.

And the ways he brings us to that fullness are probably as varied as people are. It may come in a tumultuous experience of ecstasy and tongues. It may come through a tumultuous experience of ecstasy and no tongues. It may come through a crisis of suffering when you abandon yourself totally to God. Or it may come gradually through a steady diet of God's Word and prayer and fellowship and worship and service.

However it comes, our first experience of the fullness of the Spirit is only the beginning of a life-long battle to stay filled with the Spirit.

Pastor M. Isi Eromosele is a part of the Leadership Pastors at God’s Intervention Center in New York. He is also the Founder and CEO of Oseme Group, a global management consulting company based in New York City.